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CALENDAR DAYS 



AN ENTERTAINMENT IN ONE ACT 



BY 

HARRIETTE WILBUR 




CHICAGO 

T. S. DENISON & COMPANY 

Publishers 



Cale ndar Days 

CHARACTERS. 

Jenny, a little girl. June. 

Father Time. July. 

January. August. 

February. September. 

March. October. 

April. November. 

May. December. 
Jack Frost 

Fire 

Wind \ ^.. j . 

Rain ^ Attendants. 

Sunshine. 
Showers.. 

New Year's Day. Last Day of School. 

Twelfth Night. Commencement Day. 

Carnation Day. June Wedding Day. 

Ground Hog Day. Flag Day. 

Valentine Day. Midsummer Night. 

Famous Birthdays. Independence Day. 

Mardi Gras. Orange Day. 

Ash Wednesday. Lammas Day. 

Leap Year. Labor Day. 

Inauguration Day. First Day of School. 

St. Patrick's Day. Indian Summer Day. 

Spring Opening Day. Columbus Day. 

April Fool's Day. All Hallow's Eve. 

Good Friday. Guy Fawkes Day. 

Easter Day. Election Day. 

Arbor Day. Thanksgiving Day. 

May Day. St. Barbara Day. 

Mother's Day. Pilgrim Day. 

Peace Day. Christmas Day. 

Memorial Day. Old Year Day. 
Children's Day. 

67 Characters — 32 Boys, 35 Girls. 

copyright, 1916, BY EBEN H. NORRIS. „^^ 

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Note. — Of course it is not necessary to have each part 
taken by a different child; indeed, as fen; as a doaen children 
could give this play nicely, since by a mere change of cos- 
tume, or a feiv details of costume, each can appear several 
times. And all the days need not be given, if desired, 
though, to make a complete program, the large number is 
given. If the enrollment of the school or organization 
giving this program be large, more children may be used 
and less duplications. In a school two or more rooms might 
combine to give it, and it zvoidd be a good number for a 
mid-zi'inter program for the purpose of raising money, 
since the more children there are the better the attendance 
of grown people. It can be given on a small stage, as very 
fezv appear at the same time. All the airs used will b^ 
found in "The Golden Book of Favorite Songs," price ijc, 
to be obtained from T. S. Denison & Co. They nnll also 
furnish at moderate price any make-up materials needed. 



COSTUMES. 

Jenny is dressed as any little girl. 

Father Time is in his regulation robes, with immense 
pasteboard scythe, white wig, etc. The months are dressed 
according to the ideas in Longfellow's poem, "The Poet's 
Calendar," which is used in the course of the play as recita- 
tions for the various months, as they enter. 

January is a boy in snow white robes, with cotton icicles, 
diamond dust frost and tinsel ice. He will wear two false 
faces (not ugly ones, however), one over his face and one 
over the back of his head, both joined at the sides, a high 
turban of vv^hite cotton swathed about the two foreheads. 
He is accompanied by two pages. Jack Frost and Fire. 

Jack Frost all in white canton flannel. 

Fire, all in red, both costumes being trimmed down sides 
of trousers and sleeves and about neck with haggly Indian 
fringe. 

February is the smallest child of all the twelve. She rep- 



4 • CALENDAR DAYS. 

resents water, being dressed in a long robe of blue cheese- 
cloth with, foamy overdress of very thin white, a wreath 
of pine on her head, and about the hem of her robe are 
gaily coloi-ed fishes cut from gold, silver and colored papers. 
She may carry a classical ewer or other jar. 

March is a boy dressed in a coat of mail (rings of silver 
paper pasted on a brown cambric jacket), high tight leg- 
gings of mail, a helmet and a spear. His attendants are 
Wind and Rain. 

Wind, a boy in Pied Piper suit of various colors and 
rather raggley and blown. 

Rain, a girl in a long straight sack apron of black cambric 
trimmed from head to foot both before and behind with 
zigzags of silver paper. 

April is a boy dressed as a page in a Robin Hood cos- 
tume of leaf green, trimmed with green tissue paper leaves, 
a crown of the leaves and a leaf trimmed rattle. His attend- 
ants are Sunshine and Showers. 

Sunshine, a girl in frilly yellow. 

Showers, a girl in red cambric with long strings of silver 
tinsel falling from her shoulders both before and behind. 
(Or Rain may accompany April as well as attend March.) 

May is a girl in a long robe of green cheesecloth trimmed 
liberally with flowers and carrying an immense basket of 
them. 

June is a girl in a long robe of rose-colored cheesecloth 
with wreaths and garlands of roses, or she may be dressed 
in a short dress of red cambric with many flounces to rep- 
resent the petals of a rose. Or she may represent Juno. 

July is a boy in tawny yellow, made Roman style, with 
a sickle in one hand and crowned with yellow grain or with 
grass. 

August is a girl in pale yellow cheesecloth, made long 
and in Roman style, with a sheaf of wheat in her arms and 
a wreath of grain. 

September is a boy in gray domino trimmed with white 
streamers, carrying a scale like that always given to Justice, 
and a trumpet. 



CALENDAR DAYS. 5 

October is a girl in long brown cambric dress trimmed 
about neck and shoulders and from the knees to hem with 
red, yellow and green cambric or tissue leaves ; crown of 
the leaves and a pumpkin or Jack-o'-lantern filled with fruit ; 
a necklace of nuts or rose-hips. 

November is a boy with a fur draped over one shoulder 
cind carrying a bow and arrow. 

December is a girl in a long white robe decorated with 
holly and pine cones. 

. The costumes for the Soecial Days wiU be described as 
they enter. 



Time of Playing — About One and One-half Hours. 



CALENDAR DAYS 



Scene : A family library. In the center of the rear zvall 
in a curtained doorzuay. Just in front of it on an easel, 
stands an innnense calendar made of twelve large sheets of 
cardboard and one fancy cover. 

Jenny enters at one side and crosses to the calendar. 

Jenny. This is New Year's Eve, they say, and when I 
asked the grown folks what they are expecting it to bring, 
they laughed and said the calendar will tell me. So I'm 
going to take a peep at this brand new one and see — oh! 

As she lifts her hand to turn back the fancy cover, 
Father Time slips in from behind the curtain, as though 
from the calendar. 

Jenny. I'm sure I don't know — 

Father Time (laughing). No, I suppose not. Most 
people don't know me very well, although I am always with 
them. But you haven't had much of my society — about five 
years, eh? 

Jenny. I'm nine going on ten. 

Father Time. Yes, yes ; of course. I ought to remem- 
ber that well. But can you guess who I am ? Tell me, whom 
do I make you think of? 

Jenny. You — you look, you seem — I mean, I think you 
must be some one's very nice father. 

Father Time. Just so, Miss Jenny, the oldest father in 
the world — Father Time himself. 

Jenny. Oh, I'm glad to see you. Father Time. Mother 
is always mentioning you to me. It is always time to be 
doing something — time to get up, time to go to bed, time 
to start for school, t7R*ie to wash for dinner. Sometimes, 
well — sometimes I wish I had more time to do the things I 
like. 

Father Time. Aha, Miss Jenny ; that's impossible. I'll 

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CALENDAR DAYS. 7 

not be hurried, and Til not be dragged, and I'll not give one 
person more of me than another. All have an equal share 
of me. But I'll tell you one secret. Those who use well 
what time they have always seem to have more than those 
who idle away some of their minutes and hours and days. 
Just keep that in mind, Miss Jenny. And now, tell me, 
what do you want to learn of the calendar there? 

Jenny. I want to know all about the New Year that's 
coming. The older folks are all in the sitting room, waiting 
for it to come, and I just slipped in here to find out what the 
calendar knows of it. 

Father Time. A very good plan, too. Now you just 
take a chair there. Miss Jenny, and make yourself comfort- 
able, and you shall see what you shall see. (Jenny seats 
herself expectantly, and throughout the program acts the 
interested observer. Father Time removes the gay cover 
of the calendar and shozvs the page for January.) My 
oldest son, Miss Jenny. 

Enter January^ accompanied by Frost and Fire. He 
bozvs to Jenny and then recites, indicating his attendants 
at the last two lines. 

January. 

"January am I ; oldest of potentates ; 

Forward I look, and backward, and below 
I count, as god of avenues and gates. 

The years that through my portals come and go. 
I block the roads and drift the fields with snow; 

I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; 
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, 

My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men." 

Father Time. He is named January in honor of Janus, 
the deity, the Romans once worshipped as the lord of doors 
and gates, and of all beginnings. He has two faces, because 
he looks forward into the future and backward upon the 
past. He has thirty-one children, as you see by the list 
here. Most of them are exactly alike, and much the same 
as himself, cold and frosty without, and warm and cozy 



8 CALENDAR DAYS. 

within. I'll jnst ask him to show you a few of his special 
days. 

January {bows and points to the 1 on his page and calls) 
New Year. 

Enter New Year, a very small boy dressed as a busi- 
ness man in a neat gray suit, zvith derby, cane and a suit- 
case marked zvith the number of the coming year. While 
passing across the stage he recites. 

New Year. 

My name is Happy New Year, and you see how prompt 

I come, — • 
As any day should strive to do, if special, or humdrum. 
Although as yet I am alone, you'll find I usher in 
A lengthy train of every sort of dear and pleasant kin. 

I've come prepared to take my share of any kind of 

work, 
I wouldn't once permit myself the slightest bit to shirk, 
Though new to life I have a list of very good resolves, 
And plans so great and dizzying, my poor head just 

revolves. 

The other days take pattern from the things I say 

and do. 
And so I'm very careful not a word or deed to rue ; 
And as a million duties to the rest must be assigned, 
Excuse me if I hurry on, a task for each to find. 

(Puts his suitcase at Jenny's feet and hurries out.) 
Father Time. A boy after my own heart, Miss Jenny. 
Have you any other especially talented children, January? 

January {indicates 6, announcing) Twelfth Night. 

Enter Lord of Misrule, a hoy in plumed hat, short green 
cloak, yellozu ruff, suit of yellozv knee breeches and coat ; 
ribbons, laces, heads, sezvn on everyzvhere ; strings of bells 
about each knee; gilt crozvn topping his scepter, or any 
such typical details of costume as lie is alzvays pictured. He 
comes in slozvly, limping and singing dolefully. 



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10 CALENDAR DAYS. 

Twelfth Night. 

Oh, dear, v/hat can the matter be, 

Dear, dear, what can the matter be, 

Oh, dear, what can the matter be, 

No one now notices me. 

I used to be feted and feasted and courted, 

I frohcked and danced and I capered and sported. 

The King and the Queen and the pauper and peasant, 

And every one listened to me. 

Oh, dear, what can the matter be. 
Oh, dear, what can the matter be. 
Oh, dear, what can the matter be, 
No one now notices me. 
I led a long line of gay courtiers and pages, 
I'd chamberlains, jugglers and marshals and pages, 
Oh, life was so merry and playful and pleasant, 
And every one ran after me. 
Father Time. I remember the hilarity of your reign. 
Misrule, when you were the acknowledged leader in every 
Christmas party. But I never could understand how such 
gayety and even rudeness as yours could be commemorative 
of the Visit of the Three Wise Men to the Manger, and 
on the whole it is just as well that the Roundheads and 
Puritans did away with you. Indeed, you were a bit too 
wild for any season of the year. (Misrule limps out, 
singing plaintively the refrain of his song, stopping to lay 
his scepter at Jenny's feet.) 

January {points to 29, calls). Carnation Day. 
Enter a little girl in a fluffy white dress carrying a buncJi 
of carnations. She sinc/s to air, ''The Sword of Bunker 
Hill," in ''Golden Book of Favorite Songs," or recites, as 
preferred. 

Carnation Day. 

On this day throughout our nation, 

Is a pretty blossom worn, 
Just a single white carnation. 
In memoriam it is borne. 



CALENDAR DAYS. 11 

But the bit of goodwill never 

Fails to bring a thought of cheer. 
And a touch of spring it ever 
Gives to winter, cold and drear. 
{She hands a carnation to Jenny and passes out.) 

Father Time. Carnation Day observes the birthday of 
William McKinley, the last of the three martyr Presidents. 
And now, January, make way for your sister, if you please. 
(January hoivs and goes off stage, follozued by his pages. 
Father Time removes the January page of the calendar.) 

Enter February. 
February. 

'T am lustration ; and the sea is mine ! 

I wash the sands and headlands with my tide. 
My brow is crowned with branches of the pine, 

Before my chariot wheels the fishes glide. 
By me all things are purified, 

By me the souls of men washed white again ; 
E'en the unlovely tombs of those who died 
Without a dirge, I cleanse from every stain." 

Father Time. February's name comes from the Latin, 
Februarins, the month of expiation, because, on the fifteenth 
of this Roman month, the ancients held their februa, or fes- 
tivals of purification and expiation. She was first placed 
in the Roman calendar in 452 B. C, and then had as many 
days as any month. But because she is so good and gentle, 
a few of her brothers have taken some of her days away 
from her. To make up for that, little February has per- 
haps more special days to celebrate than any other month. 
Will you let us see some of your family, February? 

February indicates 2. 

Enter Groundhog Day, a boy zvrapped in a fur robe, 
creeping on all fours and looking about furtively for his 
shadozv. He sings to air ''We're All Noddin'," in "Golden 
Book of Favorite Songs," changing half notes to quarter 
notes and tieing or untieing notes zvhen necessary. 



12 CALENDAR DAYS. 

Groundhog. 

We all keep nodding, nid-nid-nodding. 
We all keep nodding till Groundhog Day. 
Then out we come creeping all ready to quit 
Our long winter sleep if the weather be fit. 
But we're all nodding, nid-nid-nodding, 
We are all nodding till Groundhog Day. 

If there's no shadow, no bit of shadow, 

And if there's no shadow, abroad we roam. 

So if you want springtime to hasten along, 

Just hope the day's sunshine won't be at all strong. 

For if there's sunshine, the least bit sunshine. 

For if there's sunshine, we creep back home. 

Father Time. The only day in the year when people 
welcome storm and dread sunshine. 
February indicates 14. 

Enter Valentine Day, a little girl in fluffy zvJiite with 
tinsel trimmings. She is sandwiched between two great red 
cardboard hearts and crowned with band of tinsel, bearing a 
red Jieart. 

Valentine Day. 

I'm a pretty Valentine 

For a dear one. 
Made of lacy papers fine, 
And of tinsel all ashine, 
And a heart that says, "Be Mine," 

Or "To My Dear One." 

If my beauty you would share 

With a dear one, 
W^rap me up with dainty care, 
A\Vite the name I ought to bear, 
And I'll hasten off to where 

Is found your dear one. 

TJie heart in front could bear the words ''Be Mine'' in 
gold paper letters, and the one behind ''To My Dear One/' 



CALENDAR DAYS. 13 

and she then shozus the latter by turning about slozvly dur- 
ing the last of the first rerse. 

Father Time. At one of the early Roman festivals, 
the Lupercalia, which came in February, there was a cus- 
tom of choosing names by drawing slips from a box. Later, 
in the early Christian times, St. V^alentine became so famous 
for his love and charity that the custom of giving valen- 
tines upon his festival became common. As Charles Lamb 
says : "This is the day on which those charming little mis- 
sives called valentines cross and intercross each other at 
every turning. Not many sounds in life exceed in interest 
the knock on the door. But of all the clamorous visitations, 
the welcomest in expectation is the sound that ushers in 
a valentine." Long live this custom of remembering loved 
ones on this day, I say, eh. Miss Jenny? 

Jexny. Yes, indeed, Father Time. I love to send valen- 
tines and to get them, too. (Valentine's Day hands 
Jenny a pretty valentine as she passes out.) 

February (points to 7, 12, 22 and 27 and announees) 
Famous Birthdays. 

Enter a boy zcith an immense pair of spectacles and a 
very large notebook, or school book, looking ozvlishly zvise. 
He recites zuith great importance. 

Famous Birthdays. 

Deep down in my school books I find all the lore 
Regarding events that have gone on before. 
And hence as to birthdays I loudly declare 
That February has furnished her share. 

First there is Dickens, and then there is Lowell, 

Darwin, the thinker, and Longfellow, too. 
Lincoln so merciful, wise and noble, 

With Washington to keep the balance true. 

So wdien you are lauding the months that pass by, 
Record to her credit these names that never die. 
For surely, though all of the others you praise. 
No month has a list of such famous birthdays. 



14 CALENDAR DAYS. 

First there is Dickens, and then there is Lowell, 

Darwin, the thinker, and Longfellow, too. 
Lincoln, so merciful, wise and noble, 
\\lth Washington to keep the balance true. 
{Hands his book to Jenny and goes off, saying the last 
four lines to himself, checking the names off on his fingers.) 

Jenny. Two of these birthdays are holidays, too. How 
I wish all of them were. I'd have so much time to play, 
then. 

Father Time. Well, Miss Jenny, February is usually 
carnival time in Venice, and Paris, and New Orleans, and 
many other great cities. Just before Lent comes that time 
of merry-making known as Mardi Gras, which is a French 
term meaning "fat Tuesday," because it is so well fed, in 
preparation for the coming Lent. However, being a mov- 
able feast. Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, sometimes oc- 
curs in March. Shall you have Mardi Gras this year, 
February ? 

(Should ''Shrove Tuesday'' come in February of the year 
in which the play is being given, February points to the 
date and calls) Mardi Gras. 

Enter a girl and a boy, dressed in white to represent 
Pierette and Pierrot, zvith black rosettes and black masks. 
They walk back and forth zvith light steps, tossing confetti 
and leaving ribbons of paper, zvhile singing to air ''Follow 
Me, Full of Glee," in' "Golden Book of Favorite Songs." 

AL\RDi Gras. 

To and fro, to and fro. 
Dancing lightly here we go, 
Footsteps light, footsteps light. 
And our faces beaming bright. 
Swiftly dancing round and round, 
In a merry skip and bound, 
Full of glee, full of glee, 
Singing merrily. 



CALENDAR DAYS. • IS 

Singing merrily, merrily, merrily, 
Singing merrily, merrily, merrily, 
Full of glee, full of glee, 
Singing merrily. 

Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, 
* So we keep the Mardi Gras. 

Laugh and sing, laugh and sing, 

And our troubles all take wing. 

As we swiftly dance and glide. 

Rings our laughter far and wide, 

Full of glee, full of glee, 

Singing merrily. 

Singing merrily, merrily, merrily, 

Singing merrily, merrily, merrily, 

Full of glee, full of glee. 

Singing merrily. 
(Exeunt still singing, tossing some confetti over Jenny 
as they pass by.) 

February (points to the date of Ash Wednesday, pro- 
vided it conies in that month, and announces) Ash, Wednes- 
day. 

Enter a girl in gray cambric robes, arranged as in Sar- 
cjcant's painting ''Hos'ea." She recites or sings to air "Mu- 
'sical Alphabet/' in "Golden Book of Favorite Songsf' 

xA.SH Wednesday. 

After all the jollity, 

All the gay frivolity, 

When the fun seems almost spent. 

Comes the season known as Lent. 

Then for forty nights and days. 

We repent and mend our ways. 

Waiting for the joyful chime 

Of the bells at Easter time. 
(Passes slowly out. Of course, should ''Shrove Tuesday" 
and Ash Wednesday fall in March, February zvill say, 
"March has them this year, Father Time," or 'T have 



16 CALENDAR DAYS. 

Shrove Tuesday, but March has Ash Wednesday," which- 
ever is appropriate. These movable celebrations zvill have 
to be adapted to the year, and should be placed in the month 
zvhere they belong at the time.) 

February. I have still another day of which J am very 
proud, although he is not to be depended upon like the 
other days. But as he is a gift to me from the other months, 
I am always glad to see him. {She points to vacant space 
after the 28, or to the 29, calling) Leap Year Day. 

A boy enters, hopping and skipping, dressed as a Robin 
Hood forester. He recites in a sing-song manner. 

Leap Year Day. 

Thirty days hath September, 
April, June and November, 
All the rest have thirty-one, 
(So the tables always run.) 
But if you will count with care, 
February's used unfair, 
So to save her pain and tears, 
I come once in each four years. 

Father Time. Yes, that was the plan they agreed on 
in Julius Csesar's time, in 46 B. C. The way the Romans 
had been reckoning time the spring was then occurring in 
what the calendar called summer, and to correct this 
error Caesar copied the Egyptian method of estimating 
time, and introduced the present arrangement of having 
three years of three hundred and sixty-five days, followed 
by one of three hundred and sixty-six days. At that time, 
however, each month had either thirty or thirty-one days, 
and February was no smaller than the rest of them at any 
time, and every Leap Year she was as big as the biggest of 
them. 

February. Yes, it was August that robbed me, but I 
don't care, as long as I have so many holidays and feast 
days and Leap Year. (February goes off, leading Leap 
Year. Father Time removes the February page of the 
calendar.) 



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Enter March, accompanied by Wind and Rain. He 
stalks about surlily -a'liilc rccitiuij. 
March. 

"I Martius am ! Once first, and now the third ! 
To lead the year was my appointed place ; 
A mortal disposed me by a word, 

And set there Janus with the double face. 
Hence I make war on all the human race; 

I shake the cities with my hurricanes ; 
I flood the rivers and their banks efface; 

And drown the farms and hamlets with my rains." 
{He indicates his attendants at the last four lines.) 

Father Time. That is true, March. You were the first 
month in the early Roman calendar, and until England 
adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1782, the 25th of March 
was the legal New Year. I suppose we can't blame you for 
feeling angry at Julius Caesar, even though named for 
Mars, the god of war, but it seems to human folk that you 
rather overdo your surliness at times. I recall an old 
Scottish proverb : "March, borrows three days of April, 
and they are ill." And that you are always distrusted, 
even though you seem to smile, is shown in another proverb : 
"If March comes in Hke a lamb, it will go out Hke a lion." 
They all wish that you would not take any of April's sunny 
days, and so extend your power so much longer. But as 
you are stronger than April, and April is so good-natured, 
as a rule, I suppose it's too late now to try to change you 
much. But do try to be as gentle as you can this year, 
March, for Miss Jenny likes warm and sunny months the 
best, I am sure. 

Jenny. Yes, Father Time, I do hke sunshine best. But 
there are some good things about March, and I believe he 
is not half so bad as he would like to have us think him. 
And he has some nice days, I am sure. 

Father Time. No, he isn't half the bad fellow he 
seems. Come, March, show us some of your favorite days, 
will you? 



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March {points to 4 and announces) Inauguration Day. 

Enter a boy in gray trousers, black frock coat, and tile. 
He passes slozvly across the stage, head bent thoughtfully 
and hand in breast of coat, as the pianist plays "America.'" 
Bozi's io Jenny and lifts his hat as lie passes her. 

Father Time. The Constitution of the United States 
does not specify the date for the inaugural ceremony, Miss 
Jenny. But the first AA^ednesday in March, 1789, which fell 
on the fourth day of the month, was appointed as the date 
for the assembling of the first Congress, at which time it 
was intended to inaugurate President Washington as well. 
But there was delay and confusion in getting the new Gov- 
ernment into working order, so that Washington did not 
take the oath of ofiice for nearly two months after the time 
set. Nevertheless, the fourth day of March has been made 
the permanent date for the inaugural ceremony ; or the fifth, 
if the fourth happens to fall on Sunday. 

Jenny. I have heard my father say that the date should 
be changed to warmer weather, but I suppose March would 
be more furious than ever if that were done. 

Father Time. Perhaps, Miss Jenny. Well, March, what 
other days have you? 

March {points to 17 and announces) St. Patrick's Day. 

Enter a boy in black, but sandwiched betzveen tzvo im- 
mense green pasteboard trefoils. He dances a jig to the 
strains of St. Patrick's Day in the Morning,'' and jigs off, 
pausing to hand Jenny a small trefoil. 

Father Time. The day of the patron saint of Ireland, 
Miss Jenny, who lived sometime between the years 373 and 
463 A. D., and is yet honored for his useful life and his 
many good deeds. 

March {points to 21 and annonnces) Official Opening of 
Spring. 



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A messenger hoy, or girl, enters, carrying several large 
Siuit and hat boxes, and recites. 

Spring Opening Day. 

When rough March shows that spring has come, 
• Whether fretful or wearing smiles, 
'Tis then every lady turns her mind 

To the latest things in styles. 
Here's a dress of gayest silk 

In a soft and pretty rose, 
And here is a frilly, fluffy one, 

All trimmed with dancing bows. 

See ! Here's hat of straw severe. 

With quill of dazzling white ; 
And here's another all in black 

With jet that glitters bright. 
A wrap of satin gay. 

In a soft and lovely blue. 
And so Spring fashions come again, 

Each year with something new. 

(Places the boxes at Jenny's feet and goes out. Jenny 
may open one of the boxes and put on the hat if she wishes.) 

Father Time. I suppose you ladies will never wholly 
dislike March, so long as Spring fashions belong to him. 
Have you any more days? (March has Mardi Gras, Ash 
Wednesday, Good, Friday and Easter Day, shoidd they 
fall in that month. Exeunt March and his attendants. 
Father Time tears off the March sheet.) 

April enters, with his attendants, Sunshine and Show- 
ers. He recites these four lines, then seems to forget the 
rest. 

April. 

*T open wide the portals of the Spring 

To welcome the procession of the flowers. 
With their gay banners, and the birds that sing 



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Their song- of songs from their aerial towers. 
T soften with my sunshine and my showers 
The heart of eartli ; with thoughts, — '' 

Father Time. Yes, April, and with thoughts of green 
Spring you glide into the hearts of men. Welcome, April, 
always. Your name comes from "aperire," to open, because 
the buds begin to break about the time of your coming. In 
the time of Nero you were called the month of Neroneus. 
Charlemagne called you the ''grass month," and so you are 
still called in Holland. On the Greek monuments you are 
always represented as a dancing boy with a rattle in your 
hand, and it was a good likeness, indeed. Now tell us some 
of the good things you have in store for Miss Jenny. * 

April {points to 1 and calls) All Fool's Day. 

Enters a boy as a court jester, one side in red and the 
other yellozv, or in white and black, or red and white; bells 
on his pointed collar and cap peak and shoe-toes, a bauble 
in his hand. He sings to air, "Jingle Bells," in ''Golden 
Book of Favorite Songs." 

April Fool. 

April Fool am I, 

All Fool's holiday, 
You forget to sigh 
As I go my way. 
When my gay bells ring 

Every eye grows bright, 
What fun it is to jest and sing 
From morning until night. 
Jingle bells, jingle bells, 
Jingle all the day, 
Oh, what fun it is to drive 
Dull old Care away. 

All work makes one dull, 

As the proverbs say, 
So to April Fool 

All should honor pay. 



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Work is well and good, 

But a bit of spice 
Added to your daily food 
Will keep you sweet and nice. 

Jingle bells, jingle bells, etc. 

Father Time. And a very popular day, too, and the 
custom of sending people on empty errands and laughing 
at them is common in every country of Europe and wher- 
ever the European races have settled. Oriental scholars 
say that it is derived from the "huli" feast among the Hin- 
doos, which is kept the thirty-first of March, a very ancient 
celebration in wdiich high and low take part. Everybody 
delights to make "huli" fools, and many different kinds of 
l^ranks are played. The Romans had a similar day in 
February, and it is also said to be traceable to a certain 
festival the ancient Britons held. According to a rhyme 
in Poor Robin's Almanak for 1760 — 

"The first of April, some do say, 
Ts set apart for All Fool's Day, 
But why the people call it so 
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know." 

In France the fooled man is called "a silly fish," — easily 
caught, like a mackerel. In Scotland he is called a "gowk," 
which means a cuckoo, supposed to be a witless bird. But 
everyone enjoys a bit of harmless fun and although he may 
be fooled, he hopes to fool someone in turn before the day 
is done. (April Fool hands his bauble to Jenny as he 
passes, but when she reaches for it he snatches it back 
roguishly, singing the refrain of his song.) 

Jenny (finally succeeds in grasping the bauble and zvav- 
ing it triumphantly as April Fool skips off, calls) April 
Fool. 

April (points to date of Good Friday, provided the day 
does not fall in March, and announces) Good Friday. 

Enter Good Friday, a girl in black robes, or the same girl 
who represented Ash Wednesday may return in her gray 
robes. She sings one or two stanzas from some Easter 



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hymn, such as "In the Cross of Christ I Glory'' She re- 
mains to sing with Easter Day. 

Enter Easter Day, unannounced, a girl in white robes 
and wings and crown, with bouquet of lilies. Easter Day 
and Good Friday sing some Easter hymn, such as "Low 
in the Grave He Lay,'' and exeunt sloivly. 

April. I have one more special day, Father Time, or 
usually have. That is Arbor Day. In some states the Gov- 
ernor appoints days in other months, however. In Texas 
it comes on February 22, in Georgia it is in December. Still 
other states obsen^e it in March or in May. {He points to 
the correct date and announces) Arbor Day. 

Enter Arbor Day, a boy with a small tree, a spade and a 
sprinkler. He recites, admiring his tree meantime. 

Arbor Day. 

Plant a tree whene'er you can, 

And you are bestowing 
Precious gifts on all mankind 

Far beyond your knowing. 
Shelter from the wind and rain. 
Twigs where birds are singing. 
Flowers and fruits and leaflets green, 
Cooling fans out-swinging. 
{Hands tree to Jenny and goes off. Arbor Day may be 
placed in nrhatever month desired, according to the custom 
of the State in zvhich the program is being given, where- 
upon it zvill be necessary to make a fezu changes in the 
month's explanation of the day.) 

Jenny. I know about Arbor Day, Father Time. It 
means "tree day," and was first observed in Nebraska in 
1872, and in most states it is a holiday. And there's Bird 
Day, too, to go along with it. With us that comes {insert 
proper date. April passes out with attendants and Father 
Time changes the calendar.) 

Enter May, who recites. 



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May. 

''Hark ! The sea-faring wild fowl loud proclaim 

My coming, and the swarming of the bees. 
These are my heralds, and behold ! my name 

Is written in blossoms on the hawthorn trees. 
I tell the mariner when to sail the seas ; 

I waft o'er all the land from far away 
The breath and bloom of the Hesperides, 

My birthplace. I am Maia. I am May." 

Father Time. Yes, my dear, you are named from the 
Roman goddess, Maia, the mother of Mercury, and so be- 
loved were you by the Romans that they made almost every 
day a festival. Many a poet has sung praises to you, and 
Spenser says of you: 

"Then came fair May, the fairest maid on ground, 
Deck'd all with dainties of her season's pride, 
And throwing flowers out of her lap around." 

Jenny. And I know a poem, too, Father Time: . 
"When April steps aside for May, 

Like diamonds all the raindrops glisten, 
Fresh violets open every day. 

To some new bird each hour we listen." 

Father Time. So hail, bounteous May, we salute thee, 
and welcome thee, and wish thee long. What is your favor- 
ite day, and what pleasures have you in store for Miss 
Jenny ? 

May (indicates the 1 and announces) May Day. 

A girl as a May Queen, who sings to the air, "Jolly Old 
St. Nicholas/' in^'' Golden Book of Favorite Songs/' 

May Day. 

Follow where the May Queen leads, 

Follow far away, 
Over fields and dewy meads, 

Follow far away, 



24 CALENDAR DAYS. 

Come a-Maying, come .with me. 

Where the grass grows tall ; 
Flowers and trees and birds to see, 

Come, and enjoy them all. 

On this day of May-time fair. 

Follow far away ; 
All should Nature's beauty share, 

Follow far away ; 
Come a-Maying,, come with me. 

Where the fields are gold ; 
Flowers and trees and birds to see. 

And a revel hold. 

Father Time. A custom that the Romans kept each 
year when they held their feast to Flora, the goddess of 
flowers, and although in these busy times people cannot 
stop to spend a day a-Maying, still the children never forget 
to hang their May baskets and enjoy their Maypole dances 
in the city parks as did the milkmaids in the time of 
Henry VIII. (May Day Jiands Jenny her basket of flozuers 
and goes out singing the last four lines of her song.) 

May (points to the eorreet date and announces) Mother's 
Day. 

Enter a little girl dressed as a zvoman, with a doll in long 
clothes. She sings some familiar lullaby and passes out. 

Father Time. Mother's Day- is one of the youngest of 
the special days, but one the world will not soon forget to 
observe. Miss Jenny. 

May (indicates the 18 and calls) Peace Day. 

Enter Peace Day, a girl in classical zvhite robes, zvith a 
dove and an olive branchy or presumably one. Her head 
ornament may be a pair of ribbon wings, shotdd the dove 
not be easily procured. She recites, or sings to air ''Blest 
be the Tie that Binds,'' in Golden Book of Favorite Songs." 



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Peace Day. 

Soon we shall hail the dawn 

Of universal Peace, 
When nations are together drawn 

And war and hate shall cease. 

Then olive branch and dove 

Throughout the world will be known, 
And men shall dwell in brotherly love 
And none shall strife condone. 
(Or she may recite or sing any other stanzas desired, 
bearing on the subject. Site hands her oik'e branch to 
Jenny and passes out.) 

Father Time. Another new addition to our list of 
special days, Miss Jenny, and one from whom both the 
world and I hope much. There is need for her work, and 
we bid her God speed. 

May {points to 30 and calls) Memorial Day. 

Enter Memorial Day. a little girl in zvhite with a large 
wreath or basket of ftozvers. She recites "Blue and the 
Gray'' or sings ''We're Tenting Tonight,'' in "Golden Book 
of Favorite Songs." At the last she hands the zvreatJi to 
Jenny and goes out. 

Father Time. Though the world and I hope for a uni- 
versal peace, and a time when war shall be unknown, yet 
it is but fitting that tribute should be paid to those who have 
died in a great cause, which could not then be settled in 
any other way than in the shedding of blood on the battle- 
field. (Exit May. Father Time changes the calendar.) 

June enters. 
June. 

"Mine is the Month of Roses ; yes, and mine 

The Month of Marriages ! All pleasant sights 
And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine. 
The foliage of the valleys and the heights. 



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Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights ; 

The mower's scythe makes music to my ear ; 
I am the mother of all dear delights ; 

I am the fairest daughter of the year.'' 

Father Time. June ! It's a rhyme for spoon and moon 
and tune, and you can't help being a time for sentiment and 
song. But we love you all the more for that, June. No one 
knows just how you got your name, June, — even I can't 
remember. It may have been from Juno, the goddess and 
queen of heaven, but it may have been from Junius Brutus, 
a Roman consul. But that's no matter, — show us your 
favorite days, if you please. 

June points to date of Children's Day. 

Enter two very small children in light summer dresses, 
-zvho sing a stanza or ttvo from '7 Think When I Read the 
S^vcet Story of Old," in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs." 
Exeunt hand in hand, still singing. 

June {calls without indicating a date) The Last Day of 
School. 

Enter a hoy in straw hat and overalls and a little girl in 
sunhonnet and pinafore with lunch basket. They sing first 
and second stanzas of "Ho, Ho, Vacation Days are Near," 
in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs." Place lunch basket 
at Jenny's feet and exeunt singing. 

June {announces without pointing to any date) Com- 
mencement Day. 

A boy or girl in cap and gozvn, and carrying diploma, 
singing^" Fair Harvard" or any of the graduation songs 
from "Golden Book of Favorite Songs," or reciting some 
graduation poem. Or may pass across stage to music of 
"Fair Harvard." 

June {announces without indicating a date) June Wed- 
ding Day. 

Enter a bride and two bridesmaids, zvho pass across the 
stage slowly to the strains of the Wedding March of Lohen- 
grin. 



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June (points to 14 and annonnces) Flag Day. 
Enter Flag Day, a little girl zvith arms outstretched, one 
large flag reaching from hand to hand, and tacked to her 
shoulders. Or a Betsey Ross, carrying a flag, passes across 
to strains of "Star Spangled Banner/' Presents Jenny zvith 
a flag before passing out. 
June (points to 24 and announces) Midsummer Night. 
A fairy trips in and recites. 
Midsummer Night. 

I am a good fairy, so dainty and. airy, 
And though we but seldom afe seen. 
On Midsummer night, if you plan it just right, 

You can find us all out on the green. 
Take mistletoe beads and some tiny fern-seeds. 

That invisible you may be. 
And with these in hand, you take your stand, 

Close under a green elder tree. 
Then without breath or sigh, without winking an eye, 

Keep quiet as any mouse, 
And if this you do, I can promise you 
A sight of our fairy carouse. 
(Tiptoes over to Jenny, takes her hand and pretends to 
give her a double handful of something, saying: ''The fern- 
seed, my dear!' She flits out and Jenny peeps into her 
hand.) 

Jenny. Why, she said it was fern-seed, but there's noth- 
ing there at all. 

Father Time. Neither is there fern-seed, strictly speak- 
ing, Miss Jenny, so you can't expect it to help you to see 
fairies, even though she told you just how to use it. (Exit 
June. Father Time prepares the calendar for July.) 
T^j^Y Enter July. 

"My emblem is the Lion, and I breathe 

The breath of Libyan's deserts o'er the land ; 

My sickle as a saber I unsheath, 

And bent before me the pale harvests stand. 



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The lakes and rivers shrink at my command, 
And there fs thirst and fever in the air ; 

The sky is changed to brass, the earth to sand, 
I am the Emperor v/hose name I bear." 

Father Time. Yes, you are named from the great JuUus 
Caesar. The Romans called you Quintilis, from quint us, 
five, because you were the fifth month in the ancient Roman 
year, which began in March. The name was changed upon 
Antony's proposal, because Julius Caesar was born on the 
12tli of this month. Charlemagne gave you the name of 
Henmonat, or moiving month. And we like you, too, July. 
We need July suns along with April rains, if the grain is to 
grow. So shine on, July. But you are not so busy making 
and keeping it hot that you have no play times at all. 

July {points to 4 and announces) Independence Day. 

Enter a hoy dressed as Uncle Sam, who sings to air, 
''Yankee Doodle,'' in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs," or 
recites, as preferred. 

Independence Day. 

On July Fourth, in seventy-six, 

I said I would be free, sir, 
And ever more would England's King 
Just have to let me be, sir. 
Yankee doodle kept it up, 

Yankee Doodle dandy, 
Yankee doodle kept it up. 

And with his pen was handy. 
''\Mien in the course of human events" — 

Yes, that's the way it read, sir, 
And John Bull had to stand it, too, 
No matter what he said, sir. 
{Exit, after handing Jenny a rolled up document, which 
sJie unrolls and looks at admiringly.) 

Jenny {reading). ''A Declaration by the Representa- 
tives of the United States of America, in Congress assem- 
bled. When, in the course of human events, it becomes 
necessary" — yes, I've heard it read many times, but I never 



CALENDAR DAYS. • 29 

thought I'd actually see the paper itself. Look, Father Time, 
look. 

Fathkr Time. Yes, 1 remeuiher well the day it was 
signed, July 4th, 1776, and the rejoicing that went up from 
the crow^ds in the streets, and the hell ringing, — the old bell 
in the State House at Philadelphia, where the Declaration 
was drafted and signed, has ever since been known and hon- 
ored as the Liberty Bell, even though now it is too old and 
cracked to be of any use. 

July (points to 12 and announces) Orange Day. 

Enter a boy dressed in orange, carrying a hozv of orange 
ribbon or cambric. He sings to air, "Blue Bells of Scotland," 
in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs." 

Orange Day. 

Oh, why, and oh, wdiy do I love my orange bright? 

Oh, wdiy, and oh, why do I love my orange bright ? 

In honor of Prince William, wdio came from o'er the sea. 

And how dear, and how dear will it ever he to me. 

(Presents the bozv of orange ribbon to Jexny and goes 
out, followed by July. Father Time reiuores the July 
calendar page.) 

Enter Augl^st, 7vho recites her lines. 
Al^gust. 

"The Emperor Octavian, called the August, 

I being his favorite, bestowed his name 
Upon me, and I hold it still in trust, 

In memory of him and of his fame. 
I am the Virgin, and my vestal flame 

Burns less intensely than the Lion's rage; 
■ Sheaves are only my garlands, and I claim 

The golden Harvests as my heritage." 

Father Time. The Romans called you, originally, Sex- 
tilus, or the sixth month of their year, which began with 
March as I have said before. When JuHus Gnesar reformed 
the calendar he gave one of the months his name and gave 
it 31 days, so when Augustus Caesar came to the throne, 



30 CALENDAR DAYS. 

he was given a month for himself, and in order to have 

31 days in it he took a day away from February. In many 
languages the word for august also means "harvest/' but 
the Saxons called it the 'Sveed month." Such is your his- 
tory, August, as I recall it. You are always a busy month, 
gathering in the harvest. But have you no special day at all ? 

August. I have one, and it is dedicated to my favorite 
laborer, mv chief helper. (Points to 1 and calls) Lammas 
Day. 

Enter a boy in overalls and straw hat, and with a sickle, 
■who sings "The Farmer," in "Golden Book of Favorite 
Songs." At close presents his sickle to Jenny and goes out, 
follozved by August. Father Time removes August page 
of calendar. 

September enters and recites. 

September. 

"I bear the Scales, where hang in equipoise 

The night and day ; and when unto my lips 
I put my trumpet, w^ith its stress and noise 

Fly the white clouds like tattered sails of ships ; 
The tree-tops lash the air with sounding whips ; 

Southward the clamorous sea-fowl wing their flight ; 
The hedges are all red with haws and hips, 

The Hunter's Moon reigns empress of the night." 
Father Time. Very true, September. You do keep the 
nights and days evenly balanced, and you do blow many 
a stout blast on your trumpet. Once the seventh month, in 
the old Roman calendar, you have retained your name, but 
changed your position, and now we have the ninth, month 
called from "septum," seven. Such is the effect of history 
and time and change on the languages. What have you to 
offer in the way of special days ? 

September points to date of Labor Day. 

Enter a hoy dressed as a carpenter, with hammer and 
nail-pouch and a few boards. He sings to ''Anvil Chorus," 
in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs," beating time on his 
boards with his hammer to the last part. 



CALENDAR DAYS. 31 

Labor Day. 

Always at dawning I'm ready to labor, 

Whene'er there's work that my hands find to do ; 

But comes a day in the early September 

When Labor proudly marches in review. 

Proudly our banners then wave their simple story, 

Proudly we march along as clad with fame and glory, 

Dignified forevermore. 

For work is honor, for work is honor, 

When done with skill and power. 

Proudly our banners then wave their simple story, etc. 
{Hands his hammer to Jenny as he passes out.) 
September (zvithout indicating a date calls) The First 
Day of School. 

Enter a boy and girl with their books, singing to ''Ho, 
Ho, Vacation Days are Here'' in ''Golden Book of Favorite 
Songs/' 

First Day of School. 

"Ho, ho, how quickly time does fly, 

Tra la, tra la, tra la. 
And now vacation days are by, 

Tra la, tra la, tra la, 
But now we will in glad refrain 
Sing welcome back to school again, 
Ho, ho, vacation days are by, 

Tra la, tra la, tra la !" 

(Give Jenny their books' and go out, foUoivcd by Sep- 
tember. Father Time removes the September page of 
the calendar.) 

October. October enters. 

"My ornaments are fruits ; my garments leaves, 
Woven like cloth of gold, and crimson dyed; 

I do not boast the harvesting of sheaves, 
O'er orchards and o'er vineyards I preside ; 

Though on the frigid Scorpion I ride. 
The dreamy air is full, and overflows 



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With tender memories of the summertide, 
And mingled voices of the doves and crows." 
Father Time. You're another general favorite with 
poets and people, October. One poet says of you — 
''O suns and skies and clouds of June, 

And flowers of June, together, 
Ye cannot rival, for one hour, 
October's bright blue weather." 
Ocfo, eight — once the eighth month, but now the tenth. 
But aside from your beauty, what do you offer us? 

October (zvifhout indicating a date calls) Indian Summer 
Day. 

Enter a girl in smoke gray mull decorated ivith leaves and 
wearing a cap of leaves, and carrying a zvhife scarf. She 
sings air "Jiianita/' in ''Golden Book of Favorite Songs/' 

Indian Summer. 

Softly as dreaming 

Hazy shines the autumn moon ; 
And, golden beaming. 

Daylight glows at noon. 
In the wood a splendor, 

Where the warm light loves to dwell. 
And the winds are tender, 

Speaking soft farewell. 
And this, autumn gladness, 

Indian Summer, as you say, 
Has a tender sadness. 

As it dies away. 
{Throws her scarf over Jenny as she passes out.) 
October {indicates 12 and calls) Columbus Day. 

Enter Columbia in her classic robes and singing "Colum- 
bia, the Getii of the Ocean,'' in "Golden Book of Favorite 
Songs." Or she may pass across to the strains played 
softly. Presents Jenny zvith a map of North America in 
passing. Exit. 

Father Time. The day on which the brave Columbus 



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was finally rewarded for his faith in an idea. Well do I 
remember his landing, the natives looking on all his splendor 
as if he had been an angel from heaven. Can you tell me 
the date, Miss Jenny, or don't you know your history yet? 

Jenny. Certainly, Father Time. October 12, 1492. 
Land was discovered on the evening before, but it was the 
morning of the 12th that they saw the green shore of San 
Salvador, one of the West Indies, lying before them in the 
bright sunshine. 

Father Time. I see you have studied your lesson well. 
Miss Jenny. (Signs October to continue.) 

October (points to 31 and announces) All Hallow's Eve. 

Enter a zvifcJi — aiid a cJiarming one — ivho recites archly. 
All Hallow's Eve. 

In days of old, so we are told, 
Sly witches held their sway. 
Yet know, forsooth, that of a truth, 
'Twas naught but maidens gay. 
And All Hallow's Eve, 
That fate might not deceive, 
Each maiden fair 
If she but dare, 
Tried wiles beyond compare, 
And carefully 
That she might see 
Her future destiny. 

(Hands her broom, to Jenny in passing, follozved by 
October.) 

Jenny. I've seen the grown people trying to tell their 
fortunes and we children are always playing tricks on Hal- 
lowe'en, and I've often wondered what it was all about. 
Can you tell me, Father Time ? 

Father Time. Oh, it all began long ago, so far back 
that I can't remember how it started. But a long time ago 
people believed in witches and evil sprites of all kinds, and 
so had certain ceremonies for driving them away. From 
that they turned to fortune-telling, and so we have one night 



34 CALENDAR DAYS. 

in the year devoted to such pranks. {He changes the cal- 
endar.) 

November enters. 
November. 

''The Centaur, Sagittarius am I, 

Born of Ixion's and the cloud's embrace ; 
With, sounding hoofs across the earth I fly, 

A steed Thessahan with a human face. 
Sharp winds the arrows are with which I chase 

The leaves, half dead already with affright, 
I shroud myself in gloom; and to the race 
Of mortals bring nor comfort nor delight." 

Father Time. November refers to the sign of the Zo- 
diac that governs him — Sagittarius, the centaur, half horse 
and half man, carrying a bow and arrows. 

Jenny. But he is not nearly as gloomy as he says he is. 
I like November. What does he bring us? 

November {points to 5 and calls) Guy Fawkes Day. 

Enter a boy in red, who may be the Fire zvho accom- 
panied January. 

Guy Fawkes. 

O, do you remember 

The fifth of November, 

The day of the gunpowder plot? 

There's surely no reason 

Why that piece of treason 

Should ever be wholly forgot. 

Guy Fawkes, you remember, 

Was burned to an ember. 

Because of his plotting so ill, 

And so as a duty, 

But far more for beauty. 

Bright bonfires are burned for him still. 
{Lays a burned bit of zvood at Jenny's feet in passing.) 

Jenxy. Do you remember the Gunpowder Plot, Father 
Time ? 



CALENDAR DAYS. 35 

Father Time. Yes, very well, Miss Jenny. Guy Fawkes, 
with others, planned to blow up the House of Lords on No- 
vember 5th, 1605. But he was arrested the evening before 
and tried and condemned and executed. But the anniver- 
sary of the plot has long been celebrated in England, and was 
once a legal holiday, there, also. Even yet effigies are burned 
and bonfires lighted. In some parts of England different 
neighborhoods build their bonfires on the tops of hills, and 
then watch each other's fires while dancing about them. 
On a dark night the bonfires on every hilltop makes a very 
pretty sight, you may be sure. But the day is not celebrated 
in America, of course. 

Jenny. No, we have our bonfires on Hallowe'en, and in 
the spring. I do love a bonfire, though, and would like to 
see a lot of them all burning at once. 

November. Election Day. 

A hoy enters, sandwiched betzveen tzuo immense Aus- 
tralian ballots, and carrying one. 

Election Day. 

*'A dizzy ballotier stood in his retreat, 

And wished that he could make a selection; 
The names he did meet, he'd often repeat, 

And ponder on each one for election. 
"Say, only say, if I should today. 

Give you my vote as a trial, 
When you are in, oh, would you begin 

To do whatever you wish and no denial?" 
(Jenny holds out her hand for the ballot as he passes, 
but he shakes his head and goes on. Just at the exit he 
stops, ponders and comes back and hands her the ballot.) 

Jenny. Thank you so much, but I meant to have one, 
anyway. 

November (indicates the date and announces) Thanks- 
giving Day. 

Enter a very neat little cook, with a big spoon and a dish 
in her hand. Stirs zvhile singing, to air "Annie Laurie,'' 
in ''Golden Book of Favorite Songs." 



36 CALENDAR DAYS. 

Tpianksgiving. 

Oh, the other days are bonnie, 

And that I plainly see, 
But among them all a-monny. 

There's none to match with me. 

There's none to match with me, 

Who ne'er forgot will be. 
And for liberal Thanksgiving, 

You would lay you down and dee. 

There are pies and cakes and puddings, 

There's turkey and there's brawn, 
There are creams and, oh, such fixings, 

As e'er your eyes fell on. 

As e'er your eyes fell on. 

And ne'er forgot will be. 
And for liberal Thanksgiving 

You would lay you down and dee. ' 
{Hands her howl and spoon to Jenny as she passes.) 

Jenny. I know all about th^ Pilgrims, and the first 
Thanksgiving, and what they had to eat then. I have read 
it in my history. Father Time. 

Father Time. Yes, Thanksgiving Day is peculiarly an 
American holiday, but not a festival original with you, as 
there have been feasts and Harvest Home celebrations ever 
since early Hebrew times. (Changes calendar.) 

December. December enters. 

''Riding upon the G®at, with snow-white hair, 

I come, the last of all. This crown of mine 
Is of the holly, in my hand I bear 

The thrysus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine. 
I celebrate the birth of the Divine, , 

And the return of the Saturnian reign ; 
My songs and carols sung at every shrine, 

Proclaiming "Peace on earth, good will to men." 

Father Time. The last of all and the best of all. with 
good things in plenty. 



CALENDAR DAYS. 37 

December (points to 4) St. Barbara Day. 
Enter a girl, dressed as a French peasant, zvith a dish, 
some seeds and a cup of zvater. As she recites she places 
the seeds in the dish and adds the zvater slowly. 

St. Barbara. In southern France, on St. Barbara's Day, 
the women in every house fill two or three plates with wheat 
or lentils, and then set them in the warm ashes of the fire- 
place or on a sunny window ledge, to sprout. Accord- 
ing as St. Barbara's grain grows well or ill, the harvest of 
the coming year will be good or bad. At what is known as 
the Great Supper on Christmas Eve, the table is decorated 
with the growing grain, as a symbol of the harvest that is 
to be. (Hands her dish to Jenny in passing out.) 
December (points to 22) Pilgrim Day. 
A boy enters, dressed as a Pilgrim Father, who sings to 
air ''Home, Sweet Home,'' in "Golden Book of Favorite 
Songs." 
Pilgrim. 

'The breaking waves dashed high 

On a stern and rock-bound coast, 
And the woods against the sky 
Their giant branches tossed. 
The ocean eagle screamed 

From his nest beside the foam, 
And in the forest depths roared 
A sullen welcome home. 

Home, home, sweet, sweet home. 
Though dark the night and dreary, 
This land to us was home." 
(Gives Jenny his ax as he passes out.) 
December (points to 25 and calls) Christmas Day. 

Enter a Christinas angel, who sings first three stan.':as of 
''While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night," found 
in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs" or in any hymnal, and 
in passing out gives Jenny a star she has been carrying. 



38 CALENDAR DAYS. 

December indicates the 31. 

Enter Old Year, an exact counterpart of New Year, 
except a larger hoy, and one witJi a white zvig, spectacles, 
cane, and walking with a stoop. He sings to air ''Aidd 
Lang Syne," in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs," or re- 
cites, as preferred. 

Old Year. 

Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay, 

Stay for the good Old Year, 
So long companion of your way 

Shakes hands and leaves you here. 
Oh stay, my friends, a moment stay, 

Stay with the good Old Year, 
One little hour, and then away 

Departs the good Old Year. 

The kindly Year, his liberal hands 

Have lavished all his store, 
And will you turn from where he stands 

Because he gives no more ? 
Oh stay, my friends, a moment stay, 

Stay with the good Old Year, 
One grateful hour, and then away 

Departs the good Old Year. 

Even while you sing he smiles his last. 

And leaves this sphere behind. 
The good Old Year is with the past. 

Oh, be the New as kind. 
Oh stay, my friends, a moment stay. 

Stay with the good Old Year. 
One parting strain, and then away. 

Departs the good Old Year. 

(As he sings Jenny begins to nod sleepily, and as he and 
December and Father Time disappear her head drops 
down on the arm of her chair.) 



CALENDAR DAYS. 39 

Jenny (rousing suddenly and rubbing her eyes). Oh, 
Father Time, excuse me, please. I was so sleepy, and this 
is later than I am usually sitting up, and — why, where is he? 
And December? And Old Year Day? Why, where have 
they all gone? (Looks about, then goes to the calendar, 
■which nozv shozvs the page for December.) Oh, yes, I see. 
rt is New Year's Eve, now, and all the days are to come 
yet. I must fix them all just the way they belong, so the 
calendar will be all ready for tomorrow. (She gathers up 
the loose sheets, and while arranging them sings to air, 
''Try, Try Again/' in "Golden Book of Favorite Songs.") 

Jenny. 

Soon the New Year will be here, tra, la, la, la, 

Bringing days of merry cheer, tra, la, la, la. 

Valentine and May Day Queen, 

Labor Day and Hallowe'en, 

Patrick's Day with shamrock green, tra, la, la, la. 

Father Time will lead them on, tra, la, la, la. 
Till the year be come and gone, tra, la, la, la. 
Ground-Hog Day and April Fool, 
And the First and Last of School,' 
Thanksgiving and Christmas Yule, tra, la, la, la. 

While she is singing several of the days and months, tip- 
toe in and stand about edge of room. Father Time also 
peeps in, whereupon all call out — 

All. Llappy New Year, Jenny, Happy New Year ! 

(Jenny nods and smiles to them. They all sing with her, 
to chorus of air "Happy Greeting to All," in "Golden Book 
of Favorite Songs," facing audience.) 

All. 

Happy New Year to all, 

Happy New Year to all, 

Happy New Year, Happy New Year, 

Happy New Year to all. 

Curtain. 



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By WALTER BEN HARE, 

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An engaging comedy of society, 2 acts; 4 miUes, 5 females. 
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I'erdinand' Poppleton, a frivolous young man, likewise engaged. 
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